Posted on 03/03/2020 6:46:48 AM PST by hapnHal
Marian Regional Medical Center welcomed the arrival of nine babies on Saturday, Feb. 29, a rare birthday that only occurs once every four years.
By Monday, nearly all of the nine "leaper" parents had gone home with their newborns. However, Denise Lopez and her husband, Angel, stayed a little longer, trying to decide on a name for their son.They settled on Justin, which Lopez said kept jumping out to them when they were researching names."Justin is an uncommon name in the Latino community, but just because he is Latino didn't mean we wanted to pick a name like Maria or Juan. We wanted to do another name," Lopez said.Justin was born at 3:42 a.m., weighing 6 pounds, 3 ounces and measuring 18 inches long.
He arrived slightly early, with his original due date set at March 8.Lopez said she knew Justin might be born on or around leap day but was hoping it would be later so as not to coincide with his older sister's birthday on Feb. 26.
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Read something different. This poor kid is going to have a birthday every FOUR years.
When babies are born on the 29th of February, aren’t the parents given the option of listing the birthday of the baby as February 28th, or March 1st?
Leapers celebrate their birthday on the 28th or on March 1st in non leap years.
I bet little Justin is as cute as can be — and probably will be as full of mischief as the day is long.
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